ISPE Announces Category Winners For 2024 Facility Of The Year Awards (FOYA)
Judges Name Four Category Winners Plus Two Honorable Mentions with Plans to Unveil Overall FOYA Winner at the 2024 ISPE Annual Meeting & Expo, 13 October, in Orlando, Florida, USA
ISPE recently announced category winners for its 2024 Facility of the Year Awards (FOYA).
FOYA is the premier global awards program recognizing innovation and creativity in manufacturing facilities that serve the pharmaceutical industry. The award-winning projects were selected from a pool of impressive submission finalists and span various categories. FOYA category winners can be recognized for Innovation, Operations, Digitalization, Supply Chain, and Social Impact.
"This year’s FOYA category winners are redefining facility design, construction, qualification, and operability standards – an essential step as the pharmaceutical industry continues to invest in discovery, development, and licensure of innovative medicines . We'd like to congratulate these corporations that propel manufacturing facility innovation forward with impressive international project teams comprised of multidisciplined subject matter experts, accelerating the industry’s commitment to advancing the availability of transformational medicines to global patient populations – and we’re honored to cast a spotlight on such inspiring work."
Thomas B. Hartman
President and CEO
ISPE
Announced at the 2024 ISPE Europe Annual Conference, category winners are recognized by the FOYA program for their excellence in facility design, construction, and operations – setting the standard for pharmaceutical facilities of the future. Below are the honorees and their influential projects:
FOYA Category Winner: Innovation
Location: Kinsale, Ireland
Project: IE2b
Pfizer Asia Pacific Manufacturing Ltd
FOYA Category Winner: Operations, Project Execution
Location: Tuas, Singapore
Project: Pfizer API Facility Extension
FOYA Category Winner: Operations - Facility Fit
Location: Linz, Austria
Project: beePFS - Prefilled Syringe Filling
Chugai Pharma Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
FOYA Category Winner: Social Impact
Location: Tokyo, Japan
Project: UK4 Project
United Therapeutics Corporation
FOYA Category Winner: Honorable Mention
Location: Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, USA
Project: Lightyear
FOYA Category Winner: Honorable Mention
Location: Gujarat, India
Project: Oral Solid Dosage Manufacturing Facility
"The Facility of the Year Awards is both a challenge and an opportunity for industry leaders to raise the bar in an already innovative field. In fact, each year, the competition gets fiercer. The dedication and ingenuity of these teams is truly incredible."
Parag Sane
Executive Director Engineering Projects
Amgen Inc.
FOYA Judge Chair
The 2024 FOYA category winners will be formally recognized at the 2024 FOYA Banquet and Awards Celebration in Orlando, Florida, USA, on Sunday, 13 October 2024. As part of the 2024 ISPE Annual Meeting & Expo, the banquet will feature acceptance speeches from recipients, keynote sessions from industry leaders, and numerous opportunities to connect with experts in manufacturing and engineering.
About the ISPE Facility of the Year Awards Program
Established in 2005, the Facility of the Year Awards (FOYA) recognize state-of-the-art projects utilizing new, innovative technologies to improve the quality of products, reduce the cost of producing high-quality medicines, and demonstrate advances in project delivery. The FOYA program provides a platform for the pharmaceutical science and manufacturing industry to showcase its accomplishments in facility design, construction, and operation, while sharing the development of new applications of technology and cutting-edge approaches. Visit ISPE.org/FOYA for more information.
Source: ISPE